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16 июн 2026 :	ANDY LA ROCQUE: 'Nobody Knows' When The Long-Awaited New KING DIAMOND Album 'Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920' Will Arrive
4 май 2026 :	ANDY LA ROCQUE Is Still Waiting For KING DIAMOND To Finish His Songs For Upcoming Album
30 мар 2026 :	ANDY LA ROCQUE Is Still Hopeful KING DIAMOND Can Release Long-Awaited New Studio Album In 2026: 'That's Our Goal'
6 авг 2025 :
7 июл 2025 :	KING DIAMOND Cancels Four Summer 2025 European Shows After Strep Throat Diagnosis
22 июн 2025 :	ANDY LA ROCQUE On Long-Awaited New KING DIAMOND Album: 'We Still Have A Lot Of Things To Record'
19 июн 2025 :	See KING DIAMOND Perform In Milan, Italy During Spring/Summer 2025 European Tour
13 июн 2025 :	ANDY LA ROCQUE Says Plan Is To Finish Recording KING DIAMOND's 'Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920' Album Before Christmas
5 июн 2025 :	Watch: KING DIAMOND Launches Spring/Summer 2025 European Tour At SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL
18 май 2025 :	KING DIAMOND On Long-Awaited New Album From His Namesake Band: 'I Want To Make Sure It's The Best Material I've Ever Released'
13 май 2025 :	ANDY LA ROCQUE On KING DIAMOND's Next Album: 'Some Parts Are Going Back To 'Fatal Portrait' And 'Abigail''
9 фев 2025 :	KING DIAMOND Is Working On 10 New Songs For Upcoming Album
17 дек 2024 :	KING DIAMOND Releases Music Video For New Single 'Spider Lilly'
15 дек 2024 :	KING DIAMOND To Release New Single 'Spider Lilly' Next Week
2 дек 2024 :	See KING DIAMOND's Entire Los Angeles Concert During Fall 2024 'Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920' Tour
18 ноя 2024 :	Legendary KING DIAMOND Guitarist ANDY LAROCQUE Says “The Reception Of The New Songs Has Been Very Good - People Seem To Be Really Interested In Hearing New Music”
4 ноя 2024 :	KING DIAMOND's Long-Awaited New Album To Arrive In Late 2025
3 ноя 2024 :	KING DIAMOND Drummer And Members Of METAL CHURCH, EXODUS, BURNING WITCHES, And EVILE Unite For Re-Animated Cover Of Classic King Diamond Track "A Mansion In Darkness" In 2024 Halloween Edition
1 ноя 2024 :	Watch KING DIAMOND's Entire Atlanta Concert During Fall 2024 North American Tour
29 окт 2024 :	KING DIAMOND - New Super7 Deluxe Figure Available
16 окт 2024 :	Watch: KING DIAMOND Debuts Two New Songs At 2024 North American Tour Kick-Off
10 окт 2024 :	KING DIAMOND On Being Threatened With Lawsuit By KISS - "They Were Not The Ones That Inspired Me... It Was ALICE COOPER And PETER GABRIEL"
25 авг 2024 :	MIKKEY DEE Looks Back On His Time With KING DIAMOND: 'It Was Fantastic Years'
25 фев 2024 :	KING DIAMOND Offers Update On New Music From MERCYFUL FATE And His Namesake Band
15 янв 2024 :	ANDY LA ROCQUE On New KING DIAMOND Music: 'As Soon As We're Done With A Couple Of Songs, We'll Probably Release Those'
31 окт 2023 :	KING DIAMOND Releases Music Video For 'Masquerade Of Madness'

16 июн 2026

ANDY LA ROCQUE: 'Nobody Knows' When The Long-Awaited New KING DIAMOND Album 'Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920' Will Arrive

In a new interview with Sakis Fragos of Rock Hard Greece, KING DIAMOND guitarist Andy La Rocque spoke about the status of the band's forthcoming horror trilogy, part one of which is titled "Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920". Asked what is happening with "Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920" now, Andy said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "[Laughs] Yeah, what's happening with that? I can't really tell you too much about it because we have some songs. I wrote songs, like, four or five years ago that we will have, a few of them, for this upcoming album. And I already started with the right guitar tracks on it. I think Matt [Thompson, KING DIAMOND drummer] even played drums on one of my songs. And we've been playing that live too, actually, for a while, the 'Electro Therapy'. We played that live for a while. And we just need to put together some more songs before we can start recording. And, well, we actually have the songs, so I don't know. I can't really tell you how long it's gonna take to do that. Nobody knows. [Laughs] Nobody knows. We'll see. But all I can say is that we're working on it."

Asked what it was like touring Europe extensively with KING DIAMOND again in 2025, Andy said: "Oh, that was great. We did a U.S. tour back in 2024, and that was a little tough, actually, because we had a lot of problems. We had a lot of new people. Everything was kind of new after the COVID situation. So everything was new. All the costs had gone up quite a bit, and a lot of things that happened on that tour. But on the European tour last summer, 2025, that was so much better in every way because then we'd done one tour with pretty much the same people. We just had a good time doing that. I think we did, like, around 30 shows, something like that, all over Europe, actually — U.K., Greece, Turkey, up in Finland. And we just had a great time doing that. We had a lot of fun, actually, doing it. That was great. That was really good."

Last month, Andy was asked by Peter Kerr of Rock Daydream Nation if fans can expect "Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920" to arrive anytime soon. Andy said: "That's a question [that should be put] to [KING DIAMOND's namesake frontman] King [Diamond]. As you probably heard, we've been working on that for ages. But my part of it is that back in 2022, I had a bunch of songs, pre-production with the right recording guitars, some keyboards from [early KING DIAMOND collaborator] Roberto Falcao, actually. I asked him to do a few things on my songs. So I had, like, eight songs that I sent off to all the members in the band — pretty much ready to start recording, with vocals and the real proper drums and bass from Pontus [Egberg, KING DIAMOND bassist] and stuff, even though I played some bass on it, and [I used a] drum machine [for the demos] and all that stuff, just like a guideline. And we talked about it, and King wanted to use, like, three of those songs. And so I guess now he's finishing up his part of it, which is gonna be, like, five or six songs on the album. So that's what we're waiting for."

La Rocque previously discussed the status of the next KING DIAMOND album this past March in an interview with "Reckless" Rexx Ruger of the Pod Scum podcast. Asked if "Saint Lucifer's Hospital 1920" will still be released in 2026, Andy said: "I really hope so. That's our goal. We have most of the songs. I sent [King Diamond, KING DIAMOND's namesake frontman], I think, eight songs, like, four years ago, and we decided to use three of those. And we actually played one live from those songs. And as soon as he's done with this stuff — he's gotta write five songs, I believe, and he's got a lot of the stuff already written down, with the lyrics and everything. As soon as that's recorded and arranged from his side, we can put the right guitars on, the right drums, bass and everything. So I really hope it won't take very long before we can continue working on that. And if that's the case, we can start recording soon, and during the summer, [and] then we have a chance for it to be released at the very end of the year."

Regarding how he approaches playing the new KING DIAMOND material from a guitarist perspective, Andy said: "It depends. Nowadays King has usually a request for me to play the song the way he would like it to be played. So I probably play my songs a little bit different than his songs, because I know, that, for example, he [doesn't] like when I play the rhythms with like a vibrato kind of thing at the end of a riff or whatever, because that might be interacting with his vocals that comes on later. But on my songs, I just do what I feel is right to do. I mean, if it's good for the song, it's probably good. And if it doesn't fit, when he puts the vocal on, I change it. But first of all, I just write what comes out of the heart. I don't really care what other people think about the style or whatever. I just write my stuff, and it's kind of based in the '80s. I mean, standard tuning — we don't tune down with KING DIAMOND, so it's standard tuning, pretty straightforward. And, melodies [are] super essential. I think it's so important to have melodies in the songs, and create space for melodies, too, for the vocals. That's really important."

In June 2025, Andy told the Heavy Demons radio show about the KING DIAMOND songwriting process, Andy said: "[I] pretty much [come up with] a complete demo with a programmed drum track and some keyboards on and some rhythm guitars. And I try to make my demos as complete as possible with everything — except for the vocals, of course — but sometimes even with some solos that we can use on the album even, and the right guitar sounds, and hopefully the right keyboard sounds too. When it comes to King's stuff, he's a little more basic with a few of the things. For example, the guitars — he lets me re-record the guitars. And then I put solo on, and then Pontus, the bass player, puts the bass on and all that stuff. So it's a little bit different, but it's quite complete anyway, from his side. You totally understand what he wants with the feel and the atmosphere of the song. And once that's done and we're okay with the arrangement and stuff, we send that out to the other members in the band so they can start recording. For example, Matt [Thompson, KING DIAMOND drummer] has his own recording studio in Dallas, where he lives. So when he gets the demo from us, he just mutes the drums, put his drums on, and sends it to me so I can fix the drums and set up a good sound on everything. Same with the bass player and also with Mike [Wead], the other guitarist — kind of the same procedure. And once the drums are done and we're okay with everything, King is doing the vocals. So that's about it. And then, of course, we can go in and change a few things too. If something needs to be added or changed — a rhythm part on the guitar or solo; whatever needs to be changed — we can do that whenever. So it's a pretty creative procedure."

Last year, La Rocque spoke to Finland's Chaoszine about the new KING DIAMOND songs "Electro Therapy" and "Spider Lilly" which were first performed during the band's fall 2024 U.S. tour. He said: "We were kind of done with these songs. That's why we decided to try to play them live and see how it works out. And that's what we did. So, for example, 'Spider Lilly' is gonna be on the album. And we play that live. And it's also released on video. So, yeah, that's how we do it. We don't have to wait for a whole album. We thought, 'We need to put out something now for the fans.'"

During the same chat, La Rocque addressed his previous comment that he wanted the next KING DIAMOND album to have a more organic sound, similar to how it was on some of the band's early efforts. Asked if he and his bandmates will have to do a lot of "tweaking" in the studio to achieve this sound, Andy said: "Not really. That's what we don't do this time around. We don't do a lot of tweaks to it. It's organic also in the way of the playing is not like copied and pasted, stuff like that. It's more relaxed play. And there might be some things you hear that are like, 'Oh, yeah…' We're gonna keep that… Because that's what we had back in the '80s too when we recorded an album. Everything wasn't perfect — more organic, and not everything triggered and sound like everyone else. But we want a more acoustic, kind of more of the acoustic drums, and stuff like that, to make it a little bit more organic. It doesn't have to be perfect everywhere. It's good, but some things might not be a hundred percent, only 99.99, you know what I'm saying? But that's also to make everything like a more loose or organic feel to it. Of course it's gonna be good. We don't release anything that we're not happy with."

In a separate interview with Fistful Of Metal magazine, King stated about the status of the long-awaited new KING DIAMOND album: "Well, for starters, the original name that we had picked was 'The Institute'. However, that has now changed to 'St Lucifer's Hospital 1920', since the start of the U.S. tour. There very well may be a track on the album called 'The Institute'… I just want to make sure that it's the best material I've ever released. Right now, we are gearing up to film the next video for the single 'Lobotomy'. Other songs that are completed are an intro track called 'Under The Surface', 'The Institute', 'The Nun', 'Faceless' and, of course, 'Spider Lilly'. There's another track, which I'm not sure is going to be on the album yet, called 'Deep In The Darkness 1920'. Andy has been working on at least five tracks, one of which has as monster chorus that we plan to record with a choir. The plan is that this album will be the first of a trilogy, and I already have all three album titles."

In December 2024, KING DIAMOND released a studio version of "Spider Lilly". It was a first-time mixing collaboration with Arthur Rizk, who also mastered the track. The music and lyrics were written by King Diamond.

The official music video for "Spider Lilly" was directed by My Good Eye Visuals. Part of the clip was filmed at the very haunted Pennhurst Asylum outside of Philadelphia on a travel day during the band's 2024 North American tour, two days before Halloween. It was only King himself and actress Jodi Cachia who could participate on that specific day, together with producer David Brodsky, Allie Woest and their crew.

KING DIAMOND performed "Spider Lilly" live for the first time at the kick-off concert of the band's 2024 North American headlining tour.

In October 2023, KING DIAMOND released a music video for the 2019 single "Masquerade Of Madness". The clip was directed by David Brodsky and Allison Woest of My Good Eye Visuals.

A month after KING DIAMOND released "Masquerade Of Madness" in November 2019, La Rocque told The Metal Voice that he came up with the music for the track first before passing it off to King, who "needed to arrange a few things and change just a small few things for making it work with his vocals. And then, of course, he wrote the lyrics for it," the guitarist revealed. "So we [went] a little back and forth until he felt like, 'Okay, this is cool, man. This is the right key to sing in,' and all that."

KING DIAMOND received a Grammy nomination in the "Best Metal Performance" category for the track "Never Ending Hill" off the band's last album, 2007's "Give Me Your Soul … Please".

"Give Me Your Soul ... Please" sold 4,500 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 174 on The Billboard 200 chart.

KING DIAMOND released a DVD/Blu-ray, "Songs For The Dead Live", in January 2019 via Metal Blade Records. The set captured 1987's seminal "Abigail" album in its entirety, twice, and in very different locales: Belgium's Graspop Metal Meeting in June 2016 and Philadelphia's Fillmore in November 2015. The performances featured KING DIAMOND's current band, comprising of guitarists La Rocque and Mike Wead, bassist Pontus Egberg and Matt Thompson.

Photo by Jeremy Saffer

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16 июн 2026

Frostauskas

А нужен ли этот альбом вообще?

16 июн 2026

rock n roll

Frostauskas, нужен,я лично очень жду,для меня Даймонд это глыба!!!

16 июн 2026

artmageddon

был Король Пискун, а теперь Король Пиздун, сколько еще можно тянуть, как бы уже 70 лет

16 июн 2026

olly71

скорей Даймонд помрёт чем альбом выйдет . не интересно ему больше в студии сидеть . у него жена молодая и сыно подрастает ему это интересней . как мужика его понять можно просто не надо было обещать и всё.

17 июн 2026

rassol

Наконец-то честный ответ. Деда видимо самого заебал тот пиздёж, которым он кормил публику.

17 июн 2026

EvgenBriden

В целом они могут записать все инструменты и подложить ИИшного Даймонда, и думаю все будут довольны))

17 июн 2026

olly71

EvgenBriden, тексты пишет только Даймонд концепцию общую определяет только Даймонд песни выбирает и одобряет для альбома только Даймонд да и у них такая структура песен и вокальных мелодий что ИИ быстрей перегорит чем запишет как надо . Так что без датчанина причёи живого тут никак .

17 июн 2026

Jok3r

Понятно) там даже еще песни не написаны) в лучшем случае 2 года. Это если торопиться. а так все 5 понадобится)

17 июн 2026

rassol

Jok3r, они за 19 лет нихуя не сделали.

17 июн 2026

mohnatiy

Ща ща ща, пацаны, дайте три дня